Medicine and Health/Rhode Island : Its mission and its future.

摘要

The monthly medical journal of the Rhode IslandMedical Society (RIMS), now called Medicine & Health/Rhode Island, is an independent publication distributed tothe physicians and medical students within this state aswell as to selected medical libraries elsewhere in the UnitedStates. And while it attempts to reconcile the purposesof both the state’s practicing medical community and itsacademic cadre of physician-teachers, the journal has andwill continue to set its own independent agenda. It has nobylaws; and so the membership of its editorial board (andeven the choice of its editor) has resulted from a series ofinformal, ad hoc decisions within the RIMS. Indeed, in thelast six decades, the journal has had but three editors.